The ProphetSenate, 2002 - 113 עמודים In a distant, timeless place, a mysterious prophet walks the sands. At the moment of his departure, he wishes to offer the people gifts, but he possesses nothing. The people gather round, each asks a question of the heart, and the man's wisdom is his gift. It is Gibran's gift to us, as well, for Gibran's prophet is rivaled in his wisdom only by the founders of the world's great religions. On the most basic topics--marriage, children, friendship, work, pleasure--his words have a power and lucidity that in another era would surely have provoked the description "divinely inspired." Free of dogma, free of power structures and metaphysics, consider these poetic, moving aphorisms a 20th-century supplement to all sacred traditions--as millions of other readers already have |
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עמוד 32
... dream , assigned to you when that dream was born , And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life , And to love life through labour is to be intimate 32.
... dream , assigned to you when that dream was born , And in keeping yourself with labour you are in truth loving life , And to love life through labour is to be intimate 32.
עמוד 38
... dream ? and dreaming , leave the city for grove or hilltop ? Would that I could gather your houses into my hand , and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow . Would the valleys were your streets , and the green paths your alleys ...
... dream ? and dreaming , leave the city for grove or hilltop ? Would that I could gather your houses into my hand , and like a sower scatter them in forest and meadow . Would the valleys were your streets , and the green paths your alleys ...
עמוד 113
... dream . You have sung to me in my aloneness , and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky . But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over , and it is no longer dawn . The noontide is upon us and our half waking has 113 THE ...
... dream . You have sung to me in my aloneness , and I of your longings have built a tower in the sky . But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over , and it is no longer dawn . The noontide is upon us and our half waking has 113 THE ...
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